A High-Profile Newcomer Keeps a Low One, for Now

By

Victoria McGrane

Dec. 26, 2012 7:03 p.m. ET

When she is sworn in this January, Elizabeth Warren might be expected to follow a fairly well-established model for making the switch from national figure to freshman senator: Keep your head down and stay out of the limelight.

So far the Massachusetts Democrat has declined most interview requests, and she kept her answers brief at a postelection news conference. The question is whether she will stick to the script.